Protocol schema

A protocol schema is a systematic way of describing the set of rules
which constitute a protocol. The schema is divided
into four sections:

Classes - the groups of people who interact according to
the protocol. This section should specify the relation between each
class and any hierarchy within it. For example, that waiters serve
customers in a restaurant, but that customers are served according to
gender and then in decreasing order of age.

Dress and symbols - any restrictions or requirements
relating to clothing, and any symbols such as collars.

Speech rules - rules relating to silence, forms of address,
speaking only when spoken to, or ways of referring to oneself or others.

Deportment - rules governing how the individual walks,
stands, kneels, or otherwise acts physically, in ways not covered by the
previous sections.

Within D/s, it is natural that more emphasis will be placed on the
submissive when writing out a protocol.